[ILUG] Re: Why are GNOME people replacing Imlib ?

[John P . Looney]

On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 12:48:03PM +0100, John P . Looney mentioned:
>  Caolan mentioned that the GNOME people are going to stop using Imlib, well
> before GNOME 2.0 is released. Here is a post that seems to point it out.
> 
> http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-list/1999-September/0779.shtml
> 
>  Is there an offical reason why Imlib is being dumped ? It did a half
> decent job alright, just wondering why...maybe that could be a question for
> Raph...

 BTW, eog "Eye of GNOME" seems to be what they want to replace 'ee'
"Electric Eyes" with. It's nice and small, and it's zoom function (for
showing off the new pixbuf library) rocks. You need to install GNOME
1.0.40, and the pixbuf libraries first though.

Kate

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